Manifesto

València doesn't need to prove it can build serious companies any more. It has startups, universities, technical talent, capital, accelerators and an international event that brings the world to the city. That work is already done.

What was missing was somewhere those people could meet often, without waiting for the next big event and without getting on a plane. Because an ecosystem runs on what happens between its big dates: the conversations that weren't on the agenda, the prototypes shown too early, the relationships that repeat, the people who decide to build something together.

BARRACA fills that everyday space. It's the room that keeps all of it alive from the inside, open often enough that the faces stop being strangers.

BARRACA is built around the people doing the work. What counts is what you're trying to build, what you learned building it and how generously you share it. Your title, your company and your follower count stay at the door.

We like people who show their work. Code, product, architecture, mistakes and hard questions: a half-finished product makes for better conversation here than a success story rehearsed to death.

BARRACA runs in numbered sessions, like records building up a catalogue. Each session mixes whichever formats make sense for who's coming and what's worth sharing, so no two nights are the same.

The guest list is there to protect what happens inside. Everyone who comes in should make the conversation better, and that's the whole test: you're in if you're building something and have something to bring to the room.

We look for a deliberate mix: founders, engineers, researchers, product people, designers, exceptional students and profiles that are hard to file. People with a track record, and people with no reputation yet who are already doing extraordinary work.

Every session keeps room for new faces. Belonging gets built by showing up, coming back and helping other people.

When a conversation needs an icebreaker to get going, it was probably never going to be a good conversation. So the house sets the conditions and gets out of the way.

We borrowed the name for a reason. In the eighties a generation here decided to do things their own way, and ended up changing the rules from a long way outside the centres of power.

That attitude is what interests us, not the nostalgia: freedom, experimentation, mixing, intensity, and people who never asked permission to build their own culture. It's happening again with different tools, different products and different music, and the same ambition.

BARRACA has no venue. The house appears every time we get the right people in a room, and it's gone when the night ends. What stays is the relationships, the products that got shown, the conversations that carry on and the things that start getting built afterwards.

We want to be the place you come back to: where a conversation starts a company, a demo finds its first customer and an idea finds its first engineer. See you inside.